Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:19:04 -0500 From: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" <dave@hawk-systems.com> To: <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: shell script to backup files with datestamp Message-ID: <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNKEFCIHAB.dave@hawk-systems.com>
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Without dumping to perl or another external language, would like to accomplish the following; prior to making changes in a file, backup incrementially the current file to create a record of changes ans versions. For example. we are about to make changes to file.conf and would like to make a copy of our current file before doing so *without* overwriting previous backup copies #cp /path/to/file.conf /path/to/file.conf.20030210 I almost want to say this could be done with something simple like #cp /path/to/file.conf /path/to/file.conf.$DATE which would be the solution if I was using perl, php, or soething else to accomplish the copy of files, but would prefer a simple one liner without having to load another processor just for this one command. Suggestions would be appreciated. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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